different between gash vs sever

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

Alteration of older garsh, from Middle English garsen, from Old French garser, jarsier (Modern French gercer), from Vulgar Latin *charax?re, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r, “engraver”).

Alternative forms

• garsh (dated)

Noun

gash (countable and uncountable, plural gashes)

1. A deep cut.
   • 2006, New York Times, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, [1]:

     Vowing that he was “never going to forget the lessons of that day,” President Bush paid tribute last night to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, laying wreaths at ground zero, attending a prayer service at St. Paul’s Chapel and making a surprise stop at a firehouse and a memorial museum overlooking the vast gash in the ground where the twin towers once stood.

2. (slang, vulgar) A vulva.
   • 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 50th anniversary edition (2009), p. 126:

     “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”

3. (slang, offensive) A woman
   • 1934, James T. Farrell, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, Ch. 19:

     "Will you bastards quit singing the blues? You're young, and there's plenty of gash in the world, and the supply of moon goes on forever," Simonsky said.

4. (slang, British Royal Navy) Rubbish, spare kit
5. (slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft
6. (slang) Unused film or sound during film editing
7. (slang) Poor quality beer, usually watered down.

Translations

Adjective

gash (comparative more gash, superlative most gash)

1. (slang) Of poor quality; makeshift; improvised; temporary; substituted.

Verb

gash (third-person singular simple present gashes, present participle gashing, simple past and past participle gashed)

1. To make a deep, long cut; to slash.

Translations

Etymology 2

From ghastful, by association with gash.

Adjective

gash (comparative more gash, superlative most gash)

1. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) ghastly; hideous

Related terms

• gashful
• gashly

Anagrams

• HAGS, hags, shag

English

Etymology

From Middle English severen, from Old French sevrer, from Latin separ?re (“to separate”), from se- (“apart”) + par?re (“provide, arrange”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?v.?/
• Rhymes: -?v?(r)

Verb

sever (third-person singular simple present severs, present participle severing, simple past and past participle severed)

1. (transitive) To cut free.

   • The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just.

   • 1999, Eminem, Role Model

     That I just severed the main vein with a chainsaw and I'm in pain?

2. (intransitive) To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated.
3. (intransitive) To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.

   • The Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt.
4. (law) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate.

Synonyms

• becut
• cut off

Derived terms

• severable
• severally

Related terms

• separate

Translations

Further reading

• sever in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sever in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sever at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• 'verse, -verse, reves, serve, veers, verse

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin sev?rus.

Pronunciation

(Balearic) IPA^(key): /s??ve/

• (Central) IPA^(key): /s??be/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /se?ve?/

Adjective

sever (feminine severa, masculine plural severs, feminine plural severes)

1. strict, severe

Derived terms

• severament

Related terms

• severitat

Further reading

• “sever” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sever” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sever” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sever” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s?ver?. See also German Schauer or English shower (originally) ("Cold Rain").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?v?r]

Noun

sever m

1. north

Declension

Antonyms

• jih

Derived terms

• severní
• Severka
• severák
• seve?an
• severovýchod
• severozápad

Coordinate terms

• (compass points)

Further reading

• sever in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• sever in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Interlingua

Adjective

sever (comparative plus sever, superlative le plus sever)

1. severe

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *s?far, from Proto-West Germanic *saifr.

Noun

sêver n

1. drool, saliva

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• sêveren

Descendants

• Dutch: zever
• Limburgish: zeiver

Further reading

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “sever”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?fer/, [?s??fer]
• (Late Old Frisian) IPA^(key): /?se?wer/, [?s??wer]

Noun

s?ver m

1. Alternative form of s?ver

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 28

Romanian

Etymology

From French sévère, from Latin severus.

Adjective

sever m or n (feminine singular sever?, masculine plural severi, feminine and neuter plural severe)

1. strict

Declension

Related terms

• severitate

Further reading

• sever in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): sj?ver
• (Ekavian): ??ver

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s?ver?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sê?er/
• Hyphenation: se?ver

Noun

s?ver m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. (uncountable) north

Declension

Antonyms

• (south): jug

Related terms

• severni

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s?ver?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sever]

Noun

sever m (genitive singular severu, nominative plural severy, declension pattern of dub)

1. North

Derived terms

• severák
• Severan
• severne
• severný
• severovýchod
• severozápad

Further reading

• sever in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s?ver?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sè???r/

Noun

s??ver m inan

1. north

Inflection

Derived terms

• séveren

Further reading

• “sever”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Turkish

Verb

sever

1. third-person singular present simple indicative positive degree of sevmek

Antonyms

• sevmez

See also

• sever sevmez